{{Short description|Side-attached fungi/oyster mushrooms}} [[File:Pleurotus ostreatus - lindsey.jpg|thumb|right|''Pleurotus ostreatus'']]
Gilled fungi with laterally-attached fruiting bodies are classified as '''pleurotoid''' (Gr.: ''pleurē'' + ''ōtos'' + ''-oid'', literally "side-ear form" or "having the likeness of ''Pleurotus'' ssp."). Pleurotoid fungi are typically wood-decay fungi and are found on dead and dying trees and coarse woody debris. The pleurotoid form is polyphyletic, having evolved a number of times within the Basidiomycota.<ref name=thorn00/> Many species of pleurotoid fungi are commonly referred to as "oyster" mushrooms.<ref name=kuo05/> Laterally-attached fungi with pores rather than gills are referred to as bracket fungi.
==Genera== thumb|right|''Tectella operculata''
===Agaricales=== * ''Cheimonophyllum'' * ''Crepidotus'' * ''Hohenbuehelia'' * ''Hypsizygus'' * ''Ossicaulis'' * ''Panellus'' * ''Phyllotopsis'' * ''Pleurocybella'' — Angel wings * ''Pleurotus'' — Oyster mushrooms * ''Resupinatus'' — Oysterlings * ''Schizophyllum'' * ''Tectella''
===Polyporales=== * ''Lentinus'' * ''Panus''
===Russulales=== * ''Lactifluus'' - some species * ''Lentinellus'' * ''Russula'' - some species
==References== <references>
<ref name=thorn00>{{cite journal | author=Thorn, R.G.|year=2000| title=Phylogenetic analyses and the distribution of nematophagy support monophyletic Pleurotaceae within the polyphyletic pleurotoid-lentinoid fungi|journal=Mycologia| volume=92| pages=241–252| doi=10.2307/3761557 | jstor=3761557 | issue=2 | publisher=Mycologia, Vol. 92, No. 2|display-authors=etal}}</ref> <ref name=kuo05>{{cite web| last=Kuo| first=M.|date=February 2005| title=Oysters: Pleurotoid mushrooms| publisher=MushroomExpert.com| url=http://www.mushroomexpert.com/pleurotoid.html| accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{cite web| title=Trial field key to the PLEUROTOID SPECIES in the Pacific Northwest| publisher=Pacific Northwest Key Council| first=Dorothy E.| last=Brown| year=2003| first2=Ian| last2=Gibson| url=http://www.svims.ca/council/Pleuro.htm| accessdate=2011-04-08}} *{{cite web| title=Field Key: 6 Pleurotoid: oyster mushroom group| first=Gary| last=Lincoff| year=2006| publisher=Northeast Mycological Federation Inc.| url=http://www.nemf.org/files/lincoff/fieldkey/pleurotoid.html| accessdate=2011-04-08| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929155611/http://www.nemf.org/files/lincoff/fieldkey/pleurotoid.html| archivedate=2011-09-29}} *{{cite web| title=Pleurotoid Fungi| publisher=MushroomHobby.com| first= Dimitar| last=Bojantchev| url=http://www.mushroomhobby.com/Gallery/Pleurotoid/index.htm| accessdate=2011-04-08}} *[https://happytripsolutions.net/ Magic Mushrooms Effects & How To Grow Magic Mushrooms] Retrieved 2020-10-06.
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